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I wonder if the same amount of resources will be used to take down the Nationwide Bicycle Theft Ring as well.
by scottdevries 4y ago
I wonder if the same amount of resources will be used to take down the Nationwide Bicycle Theft Ring as well.
- okay_dude_321 4y ago
- lukas099 4y agoWhere is bike theft legal?
- okay_dude_321 4y ago
- Jotra7 4y ago
- loeg 4y agoIt’s mostly not organized. (Though there do seem to be some rings exporting high end bikes to Mexico for sale.)
- cyberge99 4y agoDoubtful. Thieves steal catalytic converters for the Rhodium in them. Rhodium is more expensive than gold per troy ounce.
- gpm 4y agoIs there a national bicycle theft ring? I have a vague impression that it's mostly small groups. Steal a few bikes, maybe swap some parts around, sell them as used bikes, repeat. This takedown seems to have been possible because there was a central group that was moving hundreds of millions of dollars of stolen goods - maybe even billions if you take "cost to manufacture" instead of "resell value". Why would a bike theft ring that centralized exist?
- dendrite9 4y agoI doubt there is one, it seems to me that even with bikes being as expensive as they are the value isn't there. But, maybe? There was an interesting story a year ago about bikes being stolen from CO and popping up for sale in Mexico. The article is long but has a summary at the top of the page. https://bikeindex.org/news/closing-the-loop-a-deep-dive-on-a-facebook-reseller-of-bikes-stolen-in https://bikeindex.org/news/closing-the-loop-a-deep-dive-on-a...
- UberFly 4y agoIn Seattle homeless camps had/have bike chop shops. https://www.kiro7.com/news/bike-rack-chop-shop-growing-trend-theft/19109613/ https://www.kiro7.com/news/bike-rack-chop-shop-growing-trend...
- mschuster91 4y agoThere's no need for a nation-wide ring with bikes. With cats, it is because you need connections to a refinery that will accept your stolen cats... but bikes can be fenced locally in a bike store.